Decent developers wants the best performance from their code. Performance becomes crucial under the .NET Framework, because you're arguably starting off at a performance disadvantage relative to native code.

BASIC used to be an accessible and easyto- learn programming language.This is epitomised by the first two letters, B and A in the acronym,standing for 'beginners' and 'all-purpose'.

Stone Create has been around for years - it's been available since the days of NeXTStep. Unsurprisingly after all that time, it's up to version 12, yet it still has the feel of a version 1.0 program

Freeway is probably the only web package available that tries to capture the best of both worlds: powerful features and attractive designs, but without the need to learn how to code

Until iWeb came along, RapidWeaver was pretty much unchallenged as the best way for the beginner on a budget to put together an attractive webpage. It's still by far the quickest tool

Does the idea of WYSIWYG really get your goat? Then BBEdit is the app for you. Its goal is simple: to be the best text-editing program around. But BBEdit makes no compromises for the weak

GoLive has been the poorer cousin of Dreamweaver over the last few years, which is a shame, because in many ways it's a superior app. For one thing, GoLive is easier to use...

Want to code web pages, but can't afford BBEdit, Dreamweaver or GoLive? Then PageSpinner is a good alternative. A text editor with source code highlighting, it also has many HTML-specific features, giving it a slight edge over BBEdit in some areas

For years, Borland's Delphi development system has sported dockable tool windows in the IDE. And yet Borland have never provided application developers with docking window support in the VCL library